MYoung84's 2012 Power Wagon Build Thread

[DoubleTakeDodge]

If the touchup paint doesn't hide it well enough for your taste you should consider one of these! Not terribly expensive and helps to geep the windshield cleaner as well

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Westin-Autom...794539&vxp=mtr

[DoubleTakeDodge]

Originally Posted by myoung84 I am thinking of keeping it black and not doing the white at all, I like the way it ties into the flares and black under the headlights. I might black out the headlights instead of my original storm trooper idea? Decisions, decisions...

Or compromise? lol

[myoung84]

Originally Posted by DoubleTakeDodge If the touchup paint doesn't hide it well enough for your taste you should consider one of these! Not terribly expensive and helps to geep the windshield cleaner as well http://www.ebay.com/itm/Westin-Autom...794539&vxp=mtr

I actually thought about that. The Mopar one looks a little better though.

Originally Posted by DoubleTakeDodge Or compromise? lol

That truck was actually my inspiration for the wagon. Take a look at my rendering on page one of this thread, it takes a lot from that truck.

[DoubleTakeDodge]

Ah yeah, it does! It's a good lookin truck! And I don't guess i've seen the mopar one..

[Lt.Dan]

Originally Posted by DoubleTakeDodge AMEN. I have to Rhino Line the rocker panels because rocks have absolutely destroyed the paint on the rockers

I need to rhino line my whole damn truck. My bastard tires LAUNCH rocks out.

[DoubleTakeDodge]

Hahaha get ya some big rig mud flaps

[myoung84]

Finally got my front camera worked out. Wired it up so that when I hit the button on the dash, the truck thinks it in reverse and switches to the backup camera. I have the rear camera powered from the reverse lights and the front camera powered from the relay controlled by the switch. Had to use 2 relays to get this to work. Both video cables are run to a standard RCA splitter and feed the reverse camera input on the headunit. I ended up having to order a new camera since the cheap Amazon cameras I have are a mirrored image output, which doesn't work so well when you put it on the front of the truck. I ordered a Crimestopper camera from SonicElectronix and it works great. It doesn't have night vision so night time isn't too great, but that's not what I bought it for. This camera has a wire you can cut to switch from mirror image to standard image so it can be a front or rear camera. It's also much smaller than I thought it would be.

Only issue I have is when I have the front camera enabled and put the truck in reverse, the screen freaks out since 2 live video sources are being fed into the same input. I plan to fix this eventually but will require me to do some more wiring and add a 3rd relay to cut power to the front camera when the truck's in reverse. For now I will deal with the minor issue since I don't want to crack open the dash again for the 12th time.

I took the truck up a steep hill near my house and it works great. Normally when climbing this hill all you see is blue sky and don't know when you will hit the top. With the camera on, you can see exactly what's in front of you. Also, the viewing angle on this one is much wider than my reverse camera. I also noticed that turning the camera on at 75mph is a little nauseating...

http://www.sonicelectronix.com/item_...V-6922.LM.html

[BMRbrnSNRbrd]

Nice Morgan. Now the truck is to see how close you can tailgate someone without bumping them.

[myoung84]

LOL, I can get pretty dang close! Little cars don't seem to like it when I tailgate them. All they see is my lightbar in their mirror!

[DoubleTakeDodge]

That's pretty sweet man!